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Although the autobiography of Matthew Perry “Friends, lovers and the big terrible thing” It will go on sale until November 1, excerpts from it are already causing controversy due to the passages in which he narrates the consequences that his alcohol and drug abuse had on him.
The star of the television series “friends” recounts that during his stay in a rehabilitation clinic in Switzerland He convinced the doctors to give him painkillers to ease a stomach ache, when in fact he was lying.. The night before surgery he took several pills, but in the morning the worst came, since when he was given Propofol as an anesthetic, his heart stopped beating for five minutes.
“It wasn’t a heart attack, but nothing was beating. I was told that a Swiss guy didn’t want the guy from friends I died on the operating table and gave me CPR for five minutes, pressing on my chest. If I hadn’t been in friends Would it have stopped after three minutes? wrote Matthew, detailing that this person saved his life, but he also broke eight ribs.
Matthew Perry’s addiction problem caused him to squander the opportunity to appear alongside Meryl Streep, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Laerence in the award-winning film “Don’t look up”. Before leaving for Switzerland for his rehabilitation, he filmed a scene that was not included in the final cut of the film, and after the incident in the operating room he was unable to return to that work due to pain throughout his body. He himself admits that “Don’t look up” It would have been “the biggest movie of my career.”
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